The 10 best holes in Great Britain and Ireland
3rd, Cruden Bay
Par 4, 367 yards
I hate flyovers of golf courses.
They should be banned, because they bear no resemblance to what you actually experience (hardly surprising given there is 150ft of difference between where you walk and the drone that got the footage) and, almost always, will lead to inflated expectations of what the course is like. And thus disappointment.
But I can accept the one Cruden Bay has of its 4th (I watched it while getting the yardage). What you see there is what it feels like to play it.
It’s why our historic links are the most intriguing and endlessly entertaining courses in the world and frankly why I could have populated this top 10 with nothing more than brilliantly eccentric seaside holes.
The epitome of a fun hole.
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